Sentence examples for pace of selection from inspiring English sources

However, use of stable QTLs based selection can accelerate the pace of selection process in rice breeding programs.

Lawyers involved in the case said they were surprised by the rapid pace of jury selection.

Gould's central themes of contingency and diversity create a view of biology in which the constant pace of natural selection may be perturbed by the vagaries of a chaotic environment.

Improved understanding of the evolutionary process as well as major technological advances means the pace of artificial selection has intensified and our ability to respond to changes in both the abiotic and biotic environment has improved greatly.

The ability to generate detailed mechanistic information in crop systems, and extend this to the study of wild species, promises data that are essential for addressing these fundamental questions about the nature, pace, and comparability of selection by humans and in the wild.

But soon he and his transition team may look back on this phase as luxuriantly languid, a fleeting chance for "deliberate haste," as Mr. Obama has characterized the pace of his cabinet selection process.

However, when the optimum moves at an extremely rapid pace (or the strength of selection is extremely strong), the expected time to extinction for the predator is shorter due to the predator-prey interaction.

This result potentially indicates that species preferences in temperature evolve at a similar pace, and that the strength of selection is comparable between groups inhabiting different regions.

These kinds of attacks are not new in Colombia's 38-year-old conflict, but the rebels have dramatically stepped up the pace of the aggression and their selection of targets appears increasingly audacious.

This relatively constant observed value indicates that the genome mutation rate in microbes has evolved perfectly to fit the pace of environmental changes through natural selection.

Accordingly, substance S is subject to natural selection, which means that the pace of accumulation of substance S can be manipulated by natural selection to postpone or forestall the action of potentially deleterious state-specific genes (Fig.  1).